Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Poll Results - July Film Reviews

The past two or three weeks have
passed in a misty sneeze riddled blur of hay fever; my eyes as bloodshot as
Count Dracula on one of his nocturnal hunts for fresh nubile victims. I’ve been
suffering and unfortunately so has The Celluloid Highway! The only traffic on
it in the last few weeks has been tumbleweed. I’ve even spotted a few weeds
poking out of the crumbling asphalt. But help is on hand, and a road crew has
been assigned to repair the damage. As a result of this there has been no film
review poll for July, but never fear the poll will resume in August. However we
still have unfinished business with June’s poll, and I shall do my very best to
get the winners written up for publication before the end of the month. The
effortless victor on this occasion was John Carpenter’s enjoyable dystopian
adventure Escape from New York (1981). The battle for the all important
second place was a tight nit affair between the carnivalesque surrealism of Santa
Sangre (1989) and the irradiated giant ants of Them! (1954). In the
end the latter prevailed and so we have a science-fiction double bill. Many thanks to all those who took
the time to vote and it was once again an excellent turn out. Below are
the full results for June, the bottom two as ever will be relegated from future
consideration.

2 comments:

Along with the tumbleweeds, I like to imagine the dead night winds whispering through the hedgerows and around the eaves of all the abandoned inns that line The Highway. That and all the dead leaves blowing along the cracked cobblestones.

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